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About Stuart Butler

I'm a writer, photographer and Lonely Planet author. I've worked, travelled, written about and photographed numerous countries. The majority of my working life though is spent split between fine dining in southwest Europe (mainly France and Spain) and exploring remote and little visited regions of Africa and South Asia.

Much of my written work concentrates on environmental and social issues whilst my photographic work is a mixture of reportage and portrait work. My clients include:

For Bradt Travel Guides I've written guides to Benin in West Africa and I'm currently writing a guide to the Basque Country and Navarra.

I am also a surf writer and explorer. My expeditions in search of new or little known surf spots have taken me from the coastal deserts of Pakistan and Yemen to the rain soaked jungles of Colombia and the Arctic tundra in winter. I've surfed with pygmies in Central Africa and reported on womens surf contests in Bangladesh. The stories and photographs of these trips appear frequently in the international surf media including Surfers Path, Tracks, Carve, Surf Session, Japanese Surfing World and many others. I've written the Oceansurf Guide: Portugal and Big Blue Surf Guide: Spain and is a frequent contributor to the Stormrider Guides.

Away from writing and photography I have appeared in television programes produced by France 3 and France 0.
Originally from southwest England, I am now based with my wife and children on the beautiful beaches of southwest France.